Sugar dispenser



Se t. 3, 1935. H. c. GESSLER SUGAR DISPENSER Filed Nov. 28, 1933 M ggVEN 20R: I I B v" I I ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 3, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SUGAR DISPENSER.

Harry G. Gessler, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application November 28, 1933, Serial No. 700,041

3 Claims. (01. 22161) This invention relates to devices such as disthereto as at IS. The cover may be variously pensers for granulated or finely divided materials, shaped and desirably has a conoidal wall l4, and and has particular reference to sugar dispensers. a large port IS in axial alinement therewith and One object of the invention is to provide a with the container. The wall l4 may be flared 5 device of the character described having an iminto the port as shown at l6. 5

proved means for universally controlling a valve For closing the port, a closure may be provided for closing and fully opening a port, and an imwhich seats along the outside or rim of the port, proved screen mounting for efiectively breaking and may be variously constructed, as by being up lumps of pulverulent material such as sugar, of inverted conical shape, whereby the closure lo and whereby the screen is maintained in un- I! referred to constitutes a valve which may be clogged condition; and the invention may include self guiding into accurate seating engagement either 01' both of these features in combination. with the port.

Another object of the invention is to furnish In order to permit substantially the entire area a device of the nature set forth, having few and of the port to be available for discharge of masimple parts, and which is inexpensive in conterial. the valve Il may be mounted as by a thin struction, durable, reliable, and efficient in use. W e or rod l8 which passes through the port l5. Other objects and advantages of the invention This wire is connected at one end l9 to the apex will become apparent as the specification proof the conical valve, preferably in fixed alinement d therewith, and at its other end to a stop or an- With the aforesaid objects in view, the invenchorage on or within the cover l2, to prevent 20 tion consists in the novel combinations and arremoval of the valve. rangements of parts hereinafter described in Preferably the anchorage connection of the rod th preferred embodiments, pointed t; i th I8 is movable so as to aflord universal movement subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed 0f t Valve IT S a the a e may be d y drawing, wherein like parts are designated by r vi a ionally op ia by its Own we t 25 the same reference characters throughout the t e devi e 0 s tilted in y d reeti0n.

everal vie s, The stop or anchorage may be connected to the I th drawing; other end of the rod l8, as at 20, and consists Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional generally of a weight 2| f actuating the ve view of a device embodying the invention. and for maintaining t e same in u y Opened 30' Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a separate screen closed positions according to the position of the d lv it; embodying th inve ti dispenser Ill, but regardless of its operation as a Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of the w i ht, i functions as a pa It is n d hat device of Fig. l, in tilted discharging position. t member 2| has a relatively large d a eter and 3.3 Fig. 4 is a view in elevation showing in detail may be e at ve y fl but a Particularly desirable the connection between the valve and screen. characteristic is that the m m s p i s Fig. 5 is a similar view showing a modified at a distance from its edge or periphery. As a onne tion, result of these features, more particularly de- The advantages f th in ention as here putscribed hereinafter, the port I5 is not obstructed,

4o lined are best realized when all of its features S nce t e een ael 01 S p e a t of the 40 and instrumentalities are combined in one and her 2| with the cover I is at a p t 01' along a the same structure, but, useful devices may be lin n h w remote fro the p l5, and

produced embodying less than the whole, the pulverulent material having free access to the It will be obvious to those skilled in the. art po t Within the boundaries of Said point or line 4.; to which the invention appertains, that the same, throug the Openings edmaybe incorporated in several dilferent construc- Particularly described, the member 2| may intions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is clude a suitable screen 22, which may be of usual submitted merely as showing the preferred exemwoven wire form. The area of the screen may be plification of the invention. many times the area of the port. esirably, the

Referring in detail to the drawing, Ill denotes screen may have an annular rim or channel ele- 50 a device embodying the invention, and illustrament 23 extending peripherally around the screen tively shown as incorporated in a sugar spill. to reenforce the same, and to enclose the ends of The latter may have any container which may the wires thereof which would otherwise project include the usual glass container H, and a metaland interfere with the cleaning of the device l0.

" lic cover l2 suitably or threadedly connected This is important, because the screen is separate of and disconnected with respect to the cover I2, so that the edge of the screen is always free, except for the rim 23.

Due to the conoidal form of the cover, the screen member is maintained remote from the port l5, and the entire screen area is operatively available.

The screen member may be connected to the rod l8 in any suitable manner, preferably centrally, as by means of a limited pivotal connection, as at 24, or a fixed detachable connection as at 25, which may be considered as affording detach ability broadly in the screen valve unit to facilitate cleaning of the dispenser. The former means of connection may consist of a loop 26 of the rod l8 engaged snugly frictionally around a wire of the screen 22, and the latter may include a fitted or threaded connection as at 21 between the rod l8 and a disc or bushing 28 having a peripheral groove 29 so as to be snapped into an opening of the screen or otherwise engaged therewith, so that cross wires of the screen are reliably received in said groove.

According to this invention the screen operates as a weight or stop or both for the closure valve, and in the open position of the latter the port I 5 is fully open on the valve side and also on the screen side thereof.

Another feature of the invention is that the device includes a movable screen arranged to be jarred by impact, particularly when the device is tilted and the screen member or rim thereof strikes the wall I. The screen may be used independently of the valve action.

The device is in all respects universal, the screen member accommodatively engaging the wall M, in any tilted position of the device; engagement may occur with either connection 24 or 25 but may' be particularly facilitated by the former, in which case the valve may have sulficient weight for a substantially balancing relation with the screen member to maintain the parts in desired relation in the tilted position. The engagement at 24 may be limited as to angular range of movement by adjacent wires of the screen, or the latter may be in such proximity to the cover as to be stopped by the same. It will be obvious that the screen may beat a higher elevation than as shown in Fig. 1.

In use, the device 10 is tilted or'inverted to discharge its contents, which are compelled to fiow through the screen, as the same seats on the conical wall of the cover, and the fiow is rapid and full through the port Hi. When the device is returned to upright position, the valve automatically seats shut, closing the pcrt against any entrance of dust and the like, while the screen drops, assuring complete release of material. material left adhering to the screen may be removed by impact of the screen when the deviceis again tilted. As the tilting occurs, the lower portion of the screen seats on the wall I 4, and finally the entire screen swings into seating position, so that the screenoperates eifectively.

It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made in the device as shown in the drawing, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, the

Such

screen a relatively Any scope of the invention being defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A sugar dispenser comprising in combination, a container, a conoidal cover connected to the container, said cover having a central discharge port, a valve outside of the cover adapted to seat on the port, a relatively flat screen for said port within the cover, and a substantially rigid link relatively rigidly centrally interconnecting the valve and the screen so as to provide a unit having a common axis, the screen being smaller than the inside of the cover so that said unit is freely movable relative to the cover, said link being substantially smaller in diameter than said port with the link swingably engaging the Wall of I the port to control the positions of said unit, said unit being otherwise independent of the cover with the valve and screen being automatically swingable into cooperation with said port on tilting the container through different angles of relatively large size to establish a wide range of operation for the sugar dispenser.

2. A sugar dispenser comprising in combination, a container, a conoidal cover connected to the container, said cover having a central discharge port, a valve outside of the cover adapted to seat on the port, a relatively flat screen for said port within the cover, said screen consisting of wire mesh, an externally grooved nut fitted into a relatively central opening of the screen with the wires of the latter engaging in said groove, a substantially rigid link centrally relatively rigidly connected to the valve and removably threadedly engaged with said nut, whereby the valve and screen provide a unit with the valve and screen alternately movable into operative position relative to 'said port, and so that the screen has a relatively large range of contact with the wall of the cover, in different tilted positions of the container.

3. A sugar dispenser including a container having' a cover provided with a central top port, a valve for the port, a screen within the container. said valve being of inverted conoidal shape so as to seat on the outside of the rim of the port, and a rigid vertical wire link rigidly axially connected to the valve at the lower end thereof and being rigidly connected to the screen to constitute the valve and a generally horizontally extending inflexible gravitationally actuated unit, said link being substantially smaller in area than the port so as not to obstruct the same, said valve being movable outward and away from the port to open the same, said valve and screen being spaced to permit the movement of the valve with the screen serving as a stop by abutment against the cover and the screen preventing clogging of the port,and said link maintaining said valve and screen in operative alinement and permitting a limited angular movement of said unit upon tilting and inverting the dispenser, with the conoidal face of the valve serving as a guide into said port for returning the unit to initial vertical position upon righting the dis penser.

HARRY C. GESSLER. 

